| IBIMET-CNR is involved in making different research projects and in managing
operational programmes on national and international level and has acquired
a relevant training competence to sustain partner countries and improve
their methodological and operational skills by using innovative tools, such
as Geographical Information Systems focused on the development of
meteorological and climatological applications.
Training activities are mainly addressed to National Meteorological and
Hydrological Services of Partner-Countries and/or to other Specialized
Centers in the frame of Cooperation Programmes promoted by the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs mainly in favour of the Less Developing
Countries (LDC) of World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Regional
Association I (Africa).
The Institute, as a branch of the WMO-Regional Meteorological Training
Centre for Region VI (Europe), organizes also international training courses
of high-level in Meteorology, Climatology and Remote Sensing applied to
environment and agriculture fields. Moreover, considering the increasing
evolution of the GIS functions for meteorological information users, IBIMET
has promoted in 2005 the EU COST Action 719 Summer School on "GIS
applications in meteorology and climatology''. The paper offers an overview
of the main institute training programmes organised to share the results of
research activities and operational projects, through the exploitation of
innovative technologies and tools like GIS. |